Judah’s Medical Fund

To those willing to open this and read our story, thank you. It is with humble and pleading hearts that we ask for your help.

Our names are Marissa and Rawley. Our deepest desire is to grow our family and raise our children. After almost 3 years of trying to do so, we have endured more than we could’ve ever imagined. We have undergone extensive testing, attended hundreds of doctors appointments, taken hundreds of pills and administered at-home injections, completed multiple failed IUIs, gone through IVF, experienced major complications, almost lost my life [Marissa] during surgery, been pregnant three times and have lost all three of our beautiful babies.

We were also blessed to have been foster parents, and now we feel the Lord truly calling us to step into long-term, earth-side parenthood. The Lord has laid adoption on our hearts. Adoption has always been a desire and calling we’ve felt our family would experience one day, but the timeline the Lord has provided is a bit different than we would have expected. We are eager and willing to accept this calling, but we can’t do it alone.

We’ve talked to numerous adoption consultants and agencies, and we feel the Lord has finally led us to where we will need to be. That being said, the cost of adoption is very high. We are prayerfully hoping to fundraise $50,000 to help with some of the expenses we will need to cover. The $50,000 raised here will go toward agency fees, legal fees, court fees, birth mother living expenses, birth mother medical expenses, and birth mother counseling expenses. It will not cover our own adoption consultant and home study fees, travel expenses at birth, adoptive family binder and paperwork, or finalization and legal expenses, as these are all things that we feel the Lord telling us to cover on our own.

We would be extremely grateful for any support and prayers you’re able to provide. The three ways you can bless us and partner with us are by

1. donating

2. praying

3. sharing our story and link

Please also be praying for the potential birth mother and child(ren) that God has planned for us. Please pray for protection over their bodies, minds, and spirits. Adoption plans are never easy, but we do feel that God plans to bring beauty from ashes in exactly this way. We are grateful for what the Lord has put on our hearts, and we are grateful for the story He is writing for us.

With love and gratitude,

Marissa and Rawley